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In pictures: 10 iconic rail journeys you must do in your lifetime

Trans-Siberian

Many people regard the 5,785 miles (9,256km) between Moscow and Vladivostock as their ‘bucket-list’ railway journey, a week-long immersion in birch trees, taiga and a new sense of immensity. Many break the journey in Kazan for its 16th-century Kremlin, Yekaterinburg to see the snappily named Church on the Blood in the Name of All Saints of the Russian Land, built on the site of the Ipatiev House where the Russian royal family was murdered, or Irkutsk for its historic architecture and Lake Baikal. Besides Russian Railways’ trains, the journey can be done in great style by the Golden Eagle which operates various itineraries, some turning south through Mongolia to Ulan Bator.

Real Russia (020 7100 7370; realrussia.co.uk). From £350 in 2nd class; from £845 in first class.